The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-06-08
on THE WAY HOME.
, so1ilonnx h,. Earlner Stacknole.

at q Great rate. Somehow 1 don't like
that paper as ] used to. 1t don't seen,
to tell the whole truth an nothin' but
the truth, as l used to suppose it did. !
was in at neighbor Straight's an picked
up paper called the Voice that had a
heap of news in it that l never found in
nv Republican papers. I intend to hear
both sides OF these things after this
Well, I voted for Blaine, after all my
Ieanin's to st. John. Fact, they sort OF
bull-dozed me wrjen got to the polls.
There was Elder Grand met me Oh TIE
street. 81 do hope says he, "that you
won cast half vote for such a moral
leper as Cleveland. The great issue in
this campaign is moral purity, and every
Christian nan should vote for Blaine. y
An then come the Squire. 81 tell you,
said he, cleveland is man OF no
capacity whatever, no experience In pub
lie affairs. He'll rust be the tool OF the
worst elements Of his party. Have you
seen what the ministers Of Chicago say
about?" An then he took the tobacco
out of his mouth an read somethin' like
this: "Resolved, That for the sake OF
the South, Tor the sake of this country,
for the sake of temperance and P1ohlbl-
ton, for the sake OF the family and the
reform against lolygamy, the election OF
Jas. G. Blaine is the necessity OF the
hour" "Excusc me mint, says he,
and he started off to catch saloon
keeper who was coming along. lie
talked with him for about five minits an
then handed him something in the Irl-
bune to read, and then come back to me.
s'Here's another" says he, ''of these
opinions Of the clergy that every Chris
tian man ought to read before vctln for
such q id fraud as st. John. Tx
cuse me, deacon, L don't often swear,
but the hypocraey Of these felers what
is disgracin' the cause OF temperance
makes me mad" So he pulled out a
paper an read a string of resolutions bJ
the clergy OF New York. One of en-
was, ''not to cast haf-vote for the
Democratic party with the senll-sanctlon
Of impurity and dissipation, noT whole
vote for man whose name is now the
conspicuous synonym Of incapaclty and
incontinency.' Then he began readin'
BurcharG's speech, but just as he got to
the last end of it the saloon-keeper come
over where We was standin' and says,
.sThat is very satisfactory, and he took
Republican ticket en- went on to the
polls. As soon as he was out of hearing
the Squile went on with Burchards
speech, an he put good emphasis on
the 'sRum, Romanism and Rebellion.
These things had sort Of staggered me
when good old General Easy come along.
Bless lis gray beard! We all know be
was true man in Congress, and be
seems like every mans friend. tDea-
con" says he, 'sI'm very anxious about
this election. There's the brass factory
over at the river shut down, not to re-
sumo unless Blaine is elected. And here
is tie bunker Democracy Just reachln'
after the spoils. If they get in where
will we be? What will become Of Civil
Service Reform? And tell you if the
Democrats get in I should not be sur
prised if they repealed all the laws
against polygamy, and just let Utah into
the Union, Mormons and all" There
was no doubt the good old man believed
what he was sayin' "And as for tenn
perance," he went on, 'syou know l am
a true temperance man. st. John
couldn't help the cause if he was elected,
and he can't possibly be elected, for the
majority of true temperance men are
against him. After election l will go
over this county myself an speak on
temperance, and We will put up a first.
rate candidate for the State Legislature.
Steady, old mare, over this new road.
Well, sir, my resolution just oozed out
with all this talk. forgot everything
but the incapacity and Wickedness OF
Cleveland and the Democrats, and the
anxiety of good men for Blaine's cleo
ton, and I brushed past young Straight
who had the Prohibition tickets, though
couldn't help admiring his grit, and
grace, too, for / knew he was doing his
Christian duty-I brushed past him and
putin my ballot for Blaine.
I'm afraid that ballot was throwcd
away. Cleveland's incapacity amt as
conspicuous as expected it would be.
The brass works assumed about week
after eleotion-there's the smoke Of EN-
now. And as for the Mormons and the
fellers what was crowdin' out the In
dians, they seem to be Skipping ana
clearing out more than ever before. I'm
afraid those good men what l followed
was party blind themselves. Not that L
believe IN the Democrats as @ party.
Why, Neighbcr Crook, who's been u
Democrat always, has come out since
election, and says he can't stand his
party any longer, Dow he sees a better
place to go to, and jined the Prohibi-
fionists. The Democrats is bad, but not
so bad as whiskey- The Republicans
may better, but they are not good
enough to suit me. Ii they had done
their duty this temperance question
would not be so big as It is today.
Well, when 1 got home wife says,
''Hurrah for st. John, an | was kinder
shamed to tell her who l voted for, 50 I
edged around and told her what the men
on the street told me, Ny stars didn't
her eyes begin to snap! She just fired
up and swept away their arguments like
so many cobwebs. 'Who are the hopo-
critics, says she, "the honest men who
vote for what they believe to be right,
or politicians, like the Squire, who say
one fling to the saloonists, and another
to the temperance men, and get EN- both
10 vote the same ticket:
Whoa. say. jim! jim! Come and
put out the marc.-The Voice.
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